Dive deeper
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From: A Cabin-Fragment, A Reef of Wrecks, A Shattered Prow, Among the Deep-Fish, Easy Pickings, Old Wounds, Tangled in the Rigging, Unlucky Prisoner, or Well-Disguised Trinkets
Game Instructions: Success will clear your hand, allowing you to draw a new selection of treasures. Failure will end your dive, and inflict some menaces.
Unlocked with 
Full Fathom Five 1-4
Challenge information
Narrow, 
Burning Breath 5 (50% base)
- 2 and below - almost impossible (0%)
- 3 - almost impossible (10%)
- 4 - high-risk (30%)
- 5 - very chancy (50%)
- 6 - modest (70%)
- 7 - low-risk (90%)
- 8 and above - straightforward (100%)
Success
Katabasis
Down and down and down, into the blackly-luminous fog. The zee here is thick with obstacles, with treasure, with lurching silhouettes.
[…]Description summary:
The second paragraph varies based on 
Full Fathom Five.
| Full Fathom Five | Second Paragraph |
|---|---|
| 2 | Fronds and vines reach up towards the weak light of the Neath above. Below, there is no such grasping; plants and beasts alike waft directionless, heedless of the vicissitudes of gravity or buoyancy. There is still some weak light here[…] |
| 3 | Direction holds little meaning. […] the light of the False-Stars has faded into nothing. […] If you had to swim to the surface, you are not sure you would pick the right direction – were it not for your impossible candle, whose flame dances always upwards. |
| 4 | Everything appears rounded, and soft.[…]rock and metal look as though they might give under your palm […] Erosion has imparted on everything the illusion of intangibility – but rock is […] rock, and you graze your knee on your descent. The darkness presses in […] |
| 5 | By the guttering light of your candle, you make out a gaping cavern. This is the bottom of the trench; this is the beginning of something else. An unshakable feeling settles in your bones: you are being watched. |
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
Deeper, deeper. (Increases Full Fathom Five by 1)
The flame of breath flickers. (Lowers Burning Breath by 1)
This branch clears your hand. (hidden)
Failure
Mercy withdrawn
You make oars of your palm and pull yourself deeper, your legs frog-leaping through the abyss. […] Your sickly candle-flame flickers and gutters […]
The Peligin-Eyed Lobsterman stands over you on the beach. […] "Careful," he says sadly. […]Description summary:
You dive deeper still, when your candle flickers out. You have a near-death-experience of drowning, until you come to at the beach. The Peligin-Eyed Lobsterman has seemingly pulled you out at the last minute and is now assessing you.
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)
Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
You have moved to a new area: Mutton Island- Up, up, up, out of the crushing black. (Resets Full Fathom Five to 0)
- The flame of breath flickers. (Resets Burning Breath to 0)
